Charlayne Hunter-Gault famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
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The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].
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I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
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You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
-- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
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Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
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Are you taking my hat hostage?
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
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Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.
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In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
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